For the past 30 years, the Making Headway Foundation has been supporting families of children diagnosed with brain or spinal cord tumors. During this time, we have helped thousands of families through unimaginably difficult times, providing a wide range of holistic programs and services.

Medical science has made significant, rapid advances in the treatment of pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors. Afflicted children are living longer than ever before. Yet even the best medical team can address only some aspects of the care and support these children and their families need. Making Headway provides supportive care and comfort to families of children diagnosed with a brain or spinal cord tumor, before surgery, during the hospital stay, and after the child returns home. Our programs and services are designed to help children and their families cope with the fear, anxiety, and neurological consequences of hospitalization, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments. At the same time, Making Headway is helping to find a cure, funding vital medical research in a field that has long been underfunded.

The Chair and Vice-Chair of Making Headway are Westhampton Beach residents, Elisa & Clint Greenbaum. They moved to WHB full time in 1994 with their 4-year-old son Jake. Their daughter was born that year at Southampton Hospital. Besides Making Headway the Greenbaums have been involved in many local community and charity organizations. Jake, who was as diagnosed with a rare malignant brain tumor when he was 3 months old, tragically passed away almost 6 years ago at the age of 30. This event is in loving memory of Jake.

Dinks for Headway (August 19, 2026)

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